https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Irrational_Expectations;_or,_How_Economics_and_the_Post-Industrial_World_Failed_Philip_K._Dick&feed=atom&action=historyIrrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick - Revision history2024-03-29T07:25:16ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.32.1https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Irrational_Expectations;_or,_How_Economics_and_the_Post-Industrial_World_Failed_Philip_K._Dick&diff=4213&oldid=prevErlichrd: Created page with "'''Rabkin, Eric S. "Irrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick."''' ''SFS'' #45, 15.2 (July 1988): 161-72. Category: Lite..."2014-10-13T23:02:43Z<p>Created page with "'''Rabkin, Eric S. "Irrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick."''' ''SFS'' #45, 15.2 (July 1988): 161-72. Category: Lite..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Rabkin, Eric S. "Irrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick."''' ''SFS'' #45, 15.2 (July 1988): 161-72. [[Category: Literary Criticism]] <br />
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Important essay arguing that even "as rational industrialism mass-produces its products, so it forces those working within that system to fragment and rationalize their labor—and even their thoughts—into replicable, typically identical units. Dick repeatedly dramatized this 'intellectual desolation' [as Karl Marx put it] by focusing . . . on beings who were themselves artificially produced, machine people he typically called androids" (163). Collects Dickian quotes on mechanized humans and discusses ''Do Androids Dream . . .'', "The Electric Ant," ''The Man in the High Castle, Palmer Eldritch'', "Autofac," ''A Scanner Darkly'', and ''VALIS''—see Dick citations under Fiction.</div>Erlichrd